Leather blacking



(No Model.)

. P. B. BATOHELDER.

LEATHER BLAGKING. DRESSING, AND FINISHING APPARATUS,

No. 271,971. q Patented Feb. 6,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED B. BA'I'GHELDER,

OF EAST BOS THE BATOHELDER MACHINE COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

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MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T( LEATHER BLACKING, DRESSING, AND FINISHING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,971,

dated February 6, 1883.

Application filed December 19, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRED B. BATCHELDER, of .East Boston, county of Sufl'olk, State vof Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Leather Blacking, Dressing, and Finishing Apparatus, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specification,like letters on the drawi ngs representing like parts,

his invention has for its object to improve the operation ot'a machine such as represented in United States Patent No. 251,401, heretofore granted to me, and to which reference may be had. machine the brush-roller cause the brush to apply the blaeking to every part of the face of the leather being the opposite end of the cylinder, so that the ends of the bristles, besides traveling over the leatherin the direction of rotation of the brushroller, also, when in contact with the leather, yield in opposite directions, the free across the leather, as well as in the direction of its movement over the supporting-surface. his Way every particle of the upper side of the leather is effectually blacked and streaks are effectually prevented.

Figure 1 represents in portion of a leather blacking or dressing Ina- The supporting-bed a color-roller c, deflector d, spatter-roller b, and roller 1' are as in my patent referred to. The roller 0, which applies same time that all the porting-roller a, at the leather as it is carried bristles sweep over the under it by the roller a In this way the blacking is brushed on the leather both longitudinally and transversely. The brush-cylinder will have a metal journal at each end, the journal preferablyforming part ofa metal shaft extended through the cylinder 0 of wood. The cylinder 0 is provided with a series of diagonal holes at opposite inclinations, (see Figs. 3 and 4,) into which the bristles c b will be inserted and held by glue and wooden plugs or nails, or in any usual manner.

By the term bristlesiI intend to include any usualmaterial commonlyemployed as substitutes for bristles, such as hair,tampico,&o.

I claim-- The brush-cylinder 0, having metal journals, and provided with bristles a posite directions, and adapted to yield, as described, in applying the blacking or dressing to the leather, as and for the purposes set forth.

FRED B. BATIJLIELDER. Witnesses:

G.- W'. GREGORY, BERNICE J. NoYEs.

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